Sappho Translations XV
...Sappho Translations XV by Michael R. Burch
Gaia, rainbow-crowned, garbs herself in myriad hues. (168c)
We ran like fawns from the symposium: me, Cleis and reckless Gongyla. (168d)
Destiny is...
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Categories:
fleetfooted, destiny, evil, heart, innocence,
Form: Free verse
Sappho Translations IV
...Sappho Translations IV by Michael R. Burch
Sappho, fragment 133
translation by Michael R. Burch
Blushing bride, brimful of rose-petaled love,
brightest jewel of the Goddess of Paphos,
come t...
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Categories:
fleetfooted, friend, joy, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Kismat
...Over yonder pastoral realms, with heaving mounds of green
Birds of variegated colors shine, where.streamlets gleam with opal sheen.
In circles round, fleetfooted Zephyr sweeps the laurelled ground
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Categories:
fleetfooted, beautiful, encouraging,
Form: Verse
Void, of Course (Mercury/Venus Conjunction, '05)
...Running backwards,
Her fleetfooted messenger
Approaches his lady, Beauty
Bearing secrets.
Of a sudden,
Darkness falls upon them
And they shine together
Profound, mysterious
Before all the c...
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Categories:
fleetfooted, imagination, mystery, science, visionary,
Form: Free verse